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Ever since the development of digital computers, we have shaped the world in their image. In particular, they have shaped our idea of truth and knowledge as being that which is calculable. Only that which is calculable is knowable, and so our ability to think with machines beyond our own experience, to imagine other ways of being with and alongside
... See moreJames Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
One of the greatest tragedies of modern technology is entire generations afraid to sit with their own thoughts.
Technology, after all, is what we can learn to do.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
The tech industry currently stands at a crossroads. At the twilight of social media, adtech, and crypto bull markets (bubbles?), tech workers and consumers are simultaneously exhausted by tech and starving for more. Shiny trends like Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Reality stand on the sidelines ready to transform latent frustrations into newfang... See more
Bryan Lehrer • What Happened to the New Internet?
In hacking, like painting, work comes in cycles.
Paul Graham • Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
"Let me start by stating something obvious: in the last decade, technology has transformed from a tool that we use to a place where we live. If we’re setting out to change the character of technology in our lives, we’d be wise to learn from the character of places."
— Frank Chimero